A Winston-Salem reader has called my attention to the mangling of a well-known expression in a statement attributed to a congressman. It appeared in a story in The New York Times May 8 about the ...

A Winston-Salem reader has called my attention to the mangling of a well-known expression in a statement attributed to a congressman. It appeared in a story in The New York Times May 8 about the ...

The signature family expression of joy or hangdog remorse might be more than a matter of monkey see, monkey do. It might be hard-wired into our brains.

Kaplan’s formulation was reworded to the more familiar expression, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” by psychologist Abraham Maslow. This concept, now known as ...

"A revised and enlarged version of the first edition published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1936 under the title: Phrase origins." ...